Just finished The Likeness by Tana French, which follows on her evocative debut of last year, In the Woods, both set in Ireland. The Likeness would be a great readlike for Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, with its focus on a closely knit group of college-aged students (grad-school-aged, in this case) who have secrets.
French’s writing [...]
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